Massive Tsunamis Generated by the Flood, Not an Asteroid
Two separate studies claim massive tsunamis and earthquakes from an asteroid impact profoundly affected the rock record. One research team modeled a 1.5 km (1 mile) high water wave that propagated across the ocean following the Chicxulub impact, causing sweeping erosion across the ocean floor.1...
Two separate studies claim massive tsunamis and earthquakes from an asteroid impact profoundly affected the rock record. One research team modeled a 1.5 km (1 mile) high water wave that propagated across the ocean following the Chicxulub impact, causing sweeping erosion across the ocean floor.1 Another report asserted the same impact generated a mega-earthquake that caused twisted and contorted sedimentary layering around the world.2 However, claims of a massive dinosaur-killing impact in the Yucatan Peninsula are not compelling.3 Instead, these global phenomena are better explained by the global Flood described in Genesis.
A 9-mile wide asteroid hitting the Yucatan Peninsula (near Chicxulub) at the end of the Cretaceous has been used by conventional paleontologists to explain the so-called K-Pg extinction event. However, after examining the wells and the cores drilled into the Chicxulub site, there is not nearly enough melted rock to justify a large impact, nor is there much iridium found at the site.3 Iridium is supposed to be a tell-tale sign of asteroid impacts, yet only two wells at the site have found any iridium at all. Did the so-called ‘smoking gun’ leave no smoke, or was the impactor much smaller than claimed?3